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US 8,281,822 B2Granted
In-vehicle hydrogen storage apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShuji Hirakata
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Abstract
An in-vehicle hydrogen storage apparatus has a hydrogen gas filling passage connected from a hydrogen gas filling port up to the storage device that stores a hydrogen gas to be supplied to a fuel cell, and an odorizing agent supplying device that supplies an odorizing agent to hydrogen gas in at least one of the inside of the storage device and the inside of the hydrogen gas filling passage.
Claims4
A hydrogen supply system, comprising:
- a storage device that stores hydrogen gas supplied to a fuel cell;
- a hydrogen gas filling passage that connects a filling port of the hydrogen gas filling passage to the storage device;
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- an odorizing agent supplying device that supplies an odorizing agent to the hydrogen gas in at least one of the inside of the storage device and the inside of the hydrogen gas filling passage;
- a controller programmed to control the odorizing agent supplying device to supply odorizing agent in an amount corresponding to the flow amount of hydrogen gas;
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- a hydrogen filling station that supplies hydrogen gas to the storage device, wherein the hydrogen filling station includes:
- an acquisition device that acquires a flow amount of the hydrogen gas to be supplied into the storage device;
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- a communication device that sends the acquired flow amount of hydrogen gas to the controller,
- wherein the hydrogen filling station includes a plurality of hydrogen tanks that contain hydrogen gas mixed with different odorizing agents, and
- the controller programmed to communicate data identifying a prescribed odorizing agent to the communication device, and is programmed to perform a control so that the storage device is supplied with hydrogen gas that includes the prescribed odorizing agent.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.